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The Account of a Trip 
Along the 



Pacific Coast Extensio 



of the 



Chicago --^ 

Milwaukee & St. jRiul 

Railway 




'No one can controvert the visible fact of 
growing crops." 



PASSENGER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ,-* « <L 

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway 1 



ABERDEEN, S. D 0. F. Waller, Division Passenger Agent 

BOSTON— 368 Washington Street W. W. Hall, New England Passenger Agent 

BUFFALO— 303 Main Street J. H. Skillen, Commercial Agent 

BUTTE, MONT. — 51 East Broadway P. H. Scanlan, Commercial Agent 

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA C. J. Mikesh, Division Passenger Agent 

(qs: Ariomc cfrnof S ^' ^* Souther, General Agent Pass'r Dep't 

CHICAGO ^^^ Aaams street ^Ernest G. Woodward, Traveling Pass' r Agent 

I 348 Marquette Building Geo. B. Haynes, Immigration Agent 

CINCINNATI— 24 Carew Building C. C. Mordough, Traveling Passenger Agent 

CLEVELAND— 426 Superior Ave. N. W E. G. Hayden, Traveling Passenger Agent 

DALLAS, TEXAS— 249 Main Street »^ M. F. Smith, Commercial Agent 

DAVENPORT, IOWA— 303 Brady Street P. L. Hlnrichs, Commercial Agent 

DENVER— 821 17th Street J. E. Preston, Commercial Agent 

DES MOINES, IOWA — 410 Walnut Street S. H. Vaughan, Division Pass'r Agent 

DETROIT— 212 Majestic Building Robert C. Jones, Michigan Passenger Agent 

DUBUQUE, IOWA— 597 Main Street S. N. Baird, Division Passenger Agent 

DULUTH — Palladio Building '. . . . C. L. Kennedy, Commercial Agent 

HOUGHTON, MICH H. E. Stewart, Commercial Agent 

INDIANAPOLIS— 313-314 Lemcke Building F. N. Hicks, Traveling Passenger Agent 

KAN^;^:; CITY, MO.— 907 Main Street G. L. Cobb, Southwestern Passenger Agent 

LlVfi:BPOOL, ENGLAND | ^^ Ja^m^fst!," \ •'^' Jackson & Sons., European Agents 

LOS ANGELES— 130 West Sixth Street E. K. Garrison, Traveling Passenger Agent 

MADISON, WIS W. W. Winton, District Passenger Agent 

MASON CITY, IOWA W. P. Warner, Division Passenger Agent 

MILWAUKEE — iOO East Water Street W. J. Boyle, General Agent Passenger Dep't 

MTTVTMW A pnr T<a 5 328 Nicollet Ave C. R. Lewis, City Passenger and Ticket Agent 

fl'xiixixj3.Afui.i& ^ Metropolitan Life Building. .. .A. S. Willoughby, Division Passenger Agent 

NEW ORLEANS— 517-518 Hibernla Bank Bldg W. H. Rogers, Traveling Pass'r Agent 

NEW YORK— 381 Broadway W. S. Howell, General Eastern Agent 

OMAHA — 1524 Farnam Street r. F. A. Nash, General Western Agent 

OTTUMWA, IOWA W. C. Parker, Division Passenger Agent 

PHILADELPHIA— 818 Chestnut Street Geo. J. Lincoln, Commercial Agent 

PITTSBURG— Room D, Park Building John R. Pott, District Passenger Agent 

PORTLAND, ORE.— 134 Third Street H. S. Rowe, General Agent 

RAPID CITY, S. D C. B. Wilser, Commercial Agent 

SALT LAKE CITY— 106 West Second South St 0. S. Williams, Commercial Agent 

SAN FRANCISCO— 22 Powell Street C. L. Canfleld, General Agent 

SEATTLE— 517 Second Avenue R. M. Boyd, Commercial Agent 

SIOUX CITY, IOWA J. G. Love, Division Passenger Agent 

SPOKANE— 618 Riverside Avenue R. L. Ford, Freight and Passenger Agent 

ST. LOUIS S\?fom!"K;. }■■■'■ =• ••«"»•■ C.mmercl.1 Agent 

err DATTT oo- « V * «x \ ( W. B. Dixon, Ass't Gen'l Pass'r Agent 

bl. PAUL— 365 Robert Street "I ^ p^ Rovig, Northwestern Pass'r Agent 

TACOMA— 117 South Tenth Street H. J. Manny, Traveling Passenger Agent 

TORONTO. ONT.— 8 King Street East A. J. Taylor, Canadian Passenger Agent 

WINNIPEG— 349 Main Street J. I. GUlick, Commercial Agent 

J. H. HILAND, F. A. MILLER. 

Third Vice-President. General Passenger Agent. 

CHICAGO 

No. 209 



OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WEST IN AGRICULTURAL, 
STOCK-RAISING, MERCANTILE AND PROFES- 
SIONAL LINES ARE EXCELLENT. 



The Paeifie Coast Extension of the Chieag^o, Milwaukee & St. 
Paul Railway passes through a promising country. 



Lewis and Clark raced Simon Fraser for the Empire of the Northwest 
through the mountains a century ago. The Forty-niners went through, some 
of them, and starved or froze before they reached the "Chinook" country. 
Ranchmen loudly swore that the country was "good for nothin' but grazin' — 
you couldn't raise a peck of onions between the Mississippi River and Puget 
Sound," and to prove it imported supplies with elaborate ostentation, selecting 
condensed milk and canned meats and dried eggs and vegetables as if tney were 
living in the Arctic Circle. 

Then the big railroads began to head westward toward California and the 
Coast, and each new line swung farther north. The locating engineers came 
back from the "Great American Desert" and told "The Old Man" in confidence 
that thej^ believed farmers could raise wheat and potatoes and apples in the 
valleys of these long-tabooed lands. It looked good to them. 

So it happened that in the summer of 1907 John Doe — it would never 
do to be too personal in the matter of names with a man as important as 
John Doe — went out to see for himself. He did not travel in a private car 
and acknovvdedge reception committee ovations. He dropped casually into 
the offices of business men — bankers, real estate dealers, grocers, blacksmitiis 
— and many of them were calling him "Johnny" before he left. He swapped 
stories with farmers in their fields; he got out of his buggy and poked into 
promising soils and outcropping coal-veins and five-foot wheat-shocks ; he 
slept at farms and ranches and hotels called "The Palace"; he drove many 
hundred miles in all sorts of weather, and he gained a clearer knowledge of 
the country as a whole than anyone else had ever secured before. 

The account of his trip follows. It is the plain business narrative of a 
plain business man who went into the Northwest with the questions in mind: 
"Is this country able to support agriculture ? Will it raise wheat and potatoes 
and apples instead of sagebrush and mountains ? Is it 'God's country' ?" 

It is not necessary to answer these questions here. As he says, "no one 
can controvert the visible fact of growing crops," and his account of what he 
sa\7 in actual bushels and acres is the most convincing reply. 

OPPORTUNITY LAND 

There is, in our northern tier of states, between Minnesota and Puget 
Sound, a wealth of resource in field and forest and mine of which the majority 



of people in the United States know little or nothing. Even the most open- 
minded can gain from word of mouth or printed page only a sliglit realization 
of a thing so great. I am no broader than the generality of my fellow men 
and the tales I had heard of the development of that country, of the tremen- 
dous crops and the quick return for labor invested, had made but little im- 
pression. But when I got there myself — when I rode from early morning till 
the dark fell, past splendid farm land and splendid crops — when I saw the 
enterprising, bustling, booming towns, large and small — when I talked with 
the level-headed, energetic, prosperous people — then it was a different matter. 
Then I wondered at the misleading moderation of the accounts that I had 
heard. 

It was no hurried, casual glance I gave to any part of that broad, splendid 
land. I neighbored there. I watched its crops grow. I investigated its mines. 
I compared its fruits. I examined its cattle. I drove behind its horses and 
broke dovm in its automobiles. I ate facts about everything, and I enjoyed 
them. For they were mighty good facts, well-rooted and palatable. I stayed 
until I was convinced that the time is very near when this last and perhaps 
richest portion of our country will take its fair proportion of the people and 
its proper plane in the world's economy. 

RAILROADS NECESSARY 

And now that I am returned from my long journey, the question comes: 
What is needed that this great empire may come into its own? The answer 
is as old as the hills. Pioneer railroad lines everywhere have demonstrated 
beyond doubt the richness and resourcefulness of the silent places with, and 
their utter worthlessness without, transportation. The wilds and wastes con- 
quered, the business enterprises brought into being, the deserts drenched, the 
wilderness penetrated, and the mountains pierced — in short, the millions of 
homes made ready for the habitation of man by what may be called pioneer 
lines make up an overwhelming refutation of the new contention that the 
railroad is a non-producer. In the matter of opening up new territories, it is 
the first, the pioneer producer, which can claim credit, wholly or in part, for 
everything from the first cleared field and the saw mill spur, to the fine farm 
and the city — for the finished products, which are civilization. 

As for the northwest states, the rich land is there. The people "are going 
there. What is needed is more of them. When the new straight-tracked, 
strongly-built railroad makes its SM'ift, short passage from the grain fields 
to the great grain markets; vrhen its builders complete what is already begun 
— then will there be a new empire where millions shall find homes and whence 
wealth shall flow out to the whole world. 

IN THE DAKOTAS 

It was on the evening of July 12th that I left St. Paul and I arrived the 
next night at Dickinson, North Dakota, having spent the day in studying 
pamphlets and getting what information I could from the v/estern men I met 
on the train. There was no douljt in any of their minds about the West being 
"tlie best country on earth." The following morning I started on a four days' 
drive through Hettinger, Adams and Bowman counties. North Dakota, and 
Butte County, South Dakota. It had been raining energetically, but we 



didn't stop for that: We made an early start and did some sixty-five miles 
the first day. 

Hettinger I found to be typical of a certain class of western towns; 
ahead of the railway, the residences mostly tents, the population about one 
hundred. It had three general merchandise stores, tvro banks, a lumber yard, 
a cigar and candy store, a two-story hotel, a livery barn, two barber shops, 
one newspaper, one doctor, several lav.yers and real estate agents — a good 
town — and when the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railv/ay goes through 
there, it will be a big town. Much of the land about there has been home- 
steaded and next year it will be producing big crops. 

GOOD SOIL— GOOD CROPS 

I met a locator who had just returned from thirty-six miles south of 
Lemmon and asked him about the agricultural possibilities of the land. 

"It will raise as good crops as any on earth," he said. "All the land for 
ten or fifteen miles each side of the Milwaukee has been taken up; home- 
steaders on every section. It's mighty good soil." His verdict was the general 
one. 

Tlie same is true of the country about Lemmon, S. D. All the land for 
several miles on either side of the railway has been taken up. Mr. Aldrich, 
a banker at Lemmon, which is a larger town than Hettinger, told me 
that excellent varieties of corn could be grown, quoting from his owa experi- 
ence. 

"I figured that a better article could be raised on this soil," he said, "and 
so I did a little experimenting out of office hours. I tried two or three 
varieties with great success, but the Dent seemed to do the best, so I confined 
myself to that. Anyone can acclimate a good corn." 

I talked with all kinds of people, ranchmen, locators, homesteaders, set- 
tlers, business men, real estate men, etc. ; and examined the grass and fields 
of a section of land covering roughly some 4,600,000 acres of good soil. I ex- 
amined the land with the principal questions in mind: Is this an agricul- 
tural country? Can crops be grown regularly with the average amount of 
rainfall ? 

One conversation I had with a rancher at Haley, south of the line, was 
characteristic. "Look here," he said, in response to my invariable query, and 
led me out behind the barn where he had a thrifty field of oats and squaw 
corn: "Just look at that. That's my best answer to the question. I've 
raised as good as that, or better, for the last twenty-three years, ever since 
I've been in this territory, and if I can do it others can. Others will, too, 
Tliat's the trouble. They've crowded us ranchers out of the middle west, and 
out of Wyoming, and out of a lot of Texas, and tliey'll crov/d us off into the 
Pacific Ocean pretty soon to feed our beef creatures on seaweed." 

Another rancher shewed me a field of oats he had put in. "That iicjd, 
sir," he affirmed, "will go sixty bushels to the acre if it will go a peck. 
There isn't a finer field in the t'.vo Dakotas." 

I said nothing, but I was amused, since both of these men had been tell- 
ing me that the land v/as made for grazing country and ought to be left for 
tiiat. Naturally the ranchers have resented the necessity of giving up the 
free range and have tried for years to discourage i7nmigration. Their dis- 
paraging statements I took thereafter with a large grain of salt. 



ADAMS AND HETTINGER COUNTIES, NORTH DAKOTA 

From Lemmon I drove north to Mott, N. D., traversing about forty miles 
of country in Adams and Hettinger counties. The country I found similar 
to that over which I had driven for four days except that it lies, if anything, 
still better for farming. Throughout the entire country the houses of home- 
steaders dotted the prairies. I saw fine fields of wheat and barley just south 
of Mott, K D., proving, as other fields in other parts of the country had 
done, the productiveness of the soil. One man north of Mott last year raised 
5,000 bushels of wheat. A number had each over 400 acres in crop this year. 
This grain will naturally tend south to the Milwaukee, as the wagon roads 
are better to the south. 

Mott is a well built towTi tributaiy to the Chicago, Milwaukee & 
St. Paul Eailway. Tlie one general store does a thriving business, as the 
farmers have made money raising grain. It is astonishing the amount of 
business those little one and two store towns do. At New England, thirty-five 
miles south of Dickinson, I was in a general store that buys two thousand 
dollars' worth of groceries every month. This information was given me by 
two different commercial men at Dickinson. The business is equally large in 
other lines. At Haley there is a little bank less than a year old with a capital 
of ten thousand dollars which has thirty-six thousand dollars in deposits and 
t-'Vcuty-four thousand out at interest. 

DIVERSIFIED FARMING COUNTRY 

I returned to Dickinson on July 18th, driving from Mott, a distance of fifty 
miles, and traversing a country containing more farms than any I had pre- 
viously^ seen. I talked with farmers in this section and they scoffed at any 
doubt that the region was good farming country. There had been plenty of 
rain : Indeed, personally, I could have dispensed with a little of the precipita- 
tion, for it rained more than half the time that I was on the road. 

Young Phelan, who is very familiar with the country, took me out to see 
the State Experimental Farm where, under the most improved dry-farming 
methods, they raise all kinds of grain, shrubbery, fruit trees and vegetables. 
They have succeeded in doing some things hitherto considered impossible. 

I felt that I now had the Dakota situation well in hand. I had driven two 
hundred and fifty miles in five days, covered about two hundred townships and 
talked to heaven only knows how many different kinds of people. 

The country, all in all, is of the same general aspect, valleys several miles 
broad and well suited to farming lying all along the water courses. Between 
the streams the land for miles is a succession of hills, rolling prairie, and 
buttes, the larger per cent being plough land. The natural grass that covers 
this is so nutritious that cattle fatten on it without being fed any grain or 
given protection against the weather. 

In every place I visited I saw splendid growing crops. I saw beside 
wheat (blue stem and durum), flax, and potatoes, which were the principal 
crops, barley, oats, speltz, corn, and all kinds of garden vegetables and clover 
and alfalfa. 

There can be no possible question as to the productiveness of the soil. 
No one can controvert the visible fact of growing crops. 

The water in the district is good and is easily secured at from twenty to 
sixty feet. 



COAL— FREE FOR DIGGING 

That whole section seems underlaid with lignite coal, a great deal of it 
outcropping. The fuel question is often a serious one on the prairie and I 
asked the wife of a farmer what they burned. 

"Why, there's a coal hole about three miles from here," she answered. 
"John goes over and gets a few loads when he isn't busy. We don't have to 
worry about keeping warm." 

I examined this coal at several places. It seems to be about half way 
between wood and bituminous coal. When first taken from the ground it shows 
the veins and knots of the wood of which it was formed. It slacks on exposure 
to the air. Two tons of it are snid to equal one ton of bituminous coal. The 
veins vary from three to twenty feet below the surface. 

IN EASTERN MONTANA 

Miles City was my first experience of Montana, and a pleasant one. 
They told me there that the land had produced crops for three years and 
was selling at about ten dollars an acre. I drove out to the irrigated lands 
south of the town, where a ditch from the Tongue River irrigates an exten- 
sive tract about fourteen miles long on whir-h fine crops were growing. 

The next day I went to Terry, which is a busy town well located in a 
big flat. Mr. Burt, president of the bank, took me out to his ranch in his 
automobile; at least, we covered about sixty miles of the distance in the 
automobile before it broke down. After that we did ten miles on horseback 
and five on foot. I had an excellent view of the countr}^ along the new 
St. Paul Railway and also of the country back in the hills. Tlio soil is all 
right and I saw field after field of flourishing crops produced without any 
irrigation. 

Forsyth was my next stop and there I was much interested in the 
project of the Rosebud Land and Improvement Company, which has con- 
structed an irrigation ditch that waters 11,000 acres of land across the Yel- 
lowstone River from Forsyth and extending east. 

The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway has a townsite in the center 
of this irrigated tract, which will be placed on the market, divided into small 
holdings, when the trains are running through. A beet sugar factory is to 
be located there. 

IN THE JUDITH BASIN, MONTANA 

I spent several days in and about Lewistown, as the Judith Basin in 
which the town is situated is considered the greatest country in Montana 
for dry-farming. 

It was wonderful! Simply wonderful! The first day I drove with Mr. 
G. W. Cook for fifteen miles through the farming country and I never before 
saw such wheat fields. 

Mr. Cook pointed with his whip to right and left and left and right with 
tlie succinct remark: 

"Forty bushels. . . Forty bushels. . . Forty bushels.'* 

I did not doubt it in the least. Tlie grain was as thick as it could 
grow and the heads were extraordinarily big and heavy. Fifty bushels to 
the acre is not uncommon. The grade was No. 1 Hard, a fine milling wheat 



that sold last year at $1.25 per cwt. That land sold for from ten to twenty- 
five dollars an acre, averaging about fifteen dollars. I was told that there were 
areas of land as good as that that were still raw prairie or "bench land," 
as they call it. 

The Judith Basin is a tract of about 2,000 square miles. I drove for hun- 
dreds of miles over it. The basin is well watered by numerous streams and 
springs which never fail in summer nor freeze in winter. It raises mag- 
nificent crops. Hay (timothy, alfalfa, broom grass and blue joint) and 
oats are invariably great producers. On the "bench lands," or prairies, 
between the creeks, the great wheat crops are raised, thirty, forty, and fifty 
bushels being harvested to the acre without irrigation. The basin seems 
a natural wheat country. The climate, long days and cool nights, the altitude 
and the soil are perfectly adapted to this grain. Turkey Red and Scotch 
Fife are the varieties commonly grown. The prices have been largely gov- 
erned by local conditions. The yield in the basin is estimated at 350,000 
bushels. About 80 per cent of the land can be ploughed. About 10 per 
cent is under cultivation. South and east of the railroad the country has 
been settled up for several years, north and west most of the land has been 
homesteaded for one or two years and is developing rapidly. Last year 
74,000 acres in Fergus County w^ere homesteaded. But there is still good 
land open. Fergus County has a population of 12,000 and could easily 
support 500,000. It is a great opportunity for the eastern farmer. The 
ranchmen who have held the country so long have bought condensed milk, 
canned meat, stale eggs, and desiccated vegetables without ever thinking 
to raise such things for themselves. And yet nearly all vegetables and 
small fruits io well; apples can be raised, and potatoes make a big crop of 
excellent quality. 

The sheep industry is another profitable one, bringing last summer a 
million and a quarter dollars into Fergus County in sales of wool and sheep. 

The more I saw of the region the more I was impressed with it. It is 
certain to be a great country. 

ABOUT LEWISTOWN, MONTANA 

Lewistown, with a population of about 3,500, presented a fine appearance. 
Everybody seemed to be making money. Wool, sheep, cattle and horses 
were high, and the gold mines to the north that get their supplies here are 
big producers. The largest bank there carries over $1,300,000 deposits. 

The next day I drove north to the mining town of Kendall, passing 
through a country that is being extensively farmed without irrigation and 
producing the same class of crops that I have described. The production of 
this land is almost unbelievable. 

Kendall is a lively little town. The Kendall and Barnes-King mines 
produce something over $1,000,000 in gold every year. Fergus County is 
developing its coal mines also, which will furnish employment for many 
men. Government geologists vrere camped near one of the mines that I 
visited and they said there was coal all over the basin. It is a fair quality 
of bituminous, and sold in Lewistown for $5.00 a ton, delivered. 

As each successive range oi the Ilocky Mountains is passed, the climate 
grows continually milder, Tbe fertile valleys of western Montana are becom- 
ing famed for their fruit. 



Missoula, Mont., has a climate that is considered perfection. There 1 saw 
hundreds of small fruit farms of from 10 to 20 acres, the owners of which had 
grown independent. 

The mining towns, Butte and Anaconda, and the Coeur d'Alene mining 
country to the west, make perhaps the best market for fruit in the West. 

IN IDAHO AND WASHINGTON 

St. Joe City, Idaho, is a good lumbering and manufacturing point. I went 
from there to 8t. Marie's, fifteen miles down the river, which is already a 
prosperous place and will grow rapidly with the advent of The St. Paul Road. 
I saw flats containing from ten to one hundred acres of fine meadow, grow- 
ing magnificent crops of timothy hay. Those lands are all settled and are 
valuable. Hay sells for from $16.00 to $20.00 a ton, and the land is held 
at from $100.00 to $150.00 per acre. Besides these flats, which are nearly 
level with the river, there are small valleys which raise nearly ail kinds of 
fruit to perfection. The soil and climate are ideal for peaches, plums, apri- 
cots, apples and all kinds of small fruits. Wlien the railroad furnishes trans- 
portation it will be a great fruit growing section. 

I reached Tekoa, Washington, the 13th of August. The harvest was in 
full swing and looked fine. It is a beautiful country. 

Tekoa itself is a thriving town of about a thousand people, with paved 
streets, electric lights, city water, etc. Toward Rock Lake the country is as 
fine as any in the state. It is a succession of hills on which enormous crops 
of small grains are grown. As high as fifty bushels to the acre is not uncom- 
mon, and hundreds of acres will average forty bushels. The land is nearly 
all under cultivation, but is held in large tracts, thousand-acre farms being 
frequent. The soil is a dark loam of wonderful fertility, and the rainfall 
is sufficient. Wheat, oats and barley are the main crops. Potatoes often 
make GOO bushels to the acre. Good wells are easily found, water being from 
fifteen to forty feet below the surface. 

From Tekoa I drove fifteen miles to Rosalia, a progressive towoi v.ith 
good schools and all the conveniences of an eastern city. It contains men 
worth from forty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars who came here 
ten or twelve years ago with practically nothing. 

"The crying need of this country," a business man told me, "is that the 
big holdings on which we old-timers made our money be cut up into little 
farms of forty or fifty acres. An excellent living can be made off a forty- 
acre farm. We need more people in the country to raise vegetables and fruit 
and poultry and dairy produce. The mining country to the east, and Spokane, 
as well as our local markets, would eat up all they would raise." 

A GREAT FRUIT COUNTRY 

Around Ellensburg, v/hich I made on August 21st, the whole country is 
irrigated land in a high state of cultivation. There are 50,000 acres of 
irrigated and sub-irrigated land that will be tributary to the Chicago, lilil- 
waukee & St. Paul Pvailway, as well as 80,000 acres more that can easily 
be irrigated, I rode some eighty miles in an automobile through beautiful 
meadow land tiiat I'.^s already demonstrated that it ccn raise fruit of a size, 
color and qur-Iity siniilar to that grown at Wenatchce and North l''akima. 



and of superior keeping qualities. Another great advantage is that wormy 
apples are unknown, the nights being too cold for the codling-moth. Over 
1,000 acres of appic trees were planted this year at Ellensburg and twice 
this number of trees have been ordered for next year. Pears, plums, cherries 
and apricots do well and all small fruits. The strawberries rival those raised 
at Hood River, Oregon, considered the finest in the world. 

A day or two I spent at North Yakima in order to see a fully developed 
fruit country. I talked with a number of fruit buyers who were buying for 
the eastern markets. They were paying big prices and there was not fruit 
enough to go around, although this valley has a record crop. Some of the 
best orchards here have sold for $1,500 per acre. The crop I saw on many 
of them would sell for five or six hundred dollars. The Kittitas Valley about 
Ellensburg will become this same kind of a country when it is developed. 
It is a wonderful fruit country. 

My journey ended at Seattle. With the first glimpse of the blue water 
of the Inlet and the scent of the Pacific beaches and the warm sunshine of 
the Coast warming my shoulders, it was completed. From the Mississippi 
to the lazy Pacific I had seen the Northwest, the empire of Lewis and Clark's 
discovery a hundred years ago. It is indeed an empire, only half developed 
as yet, but merely waiting for the men to run the irrigating ditch and the 
plow through its sod and for transportation to carry its products to the 
eastern markets. The men are coming: the steel rails are constantly heading 
westward across the prairies, and the long awaited future of the Empire 
of the Northwest is — today. 

All this country described will be developed and settled by the building 
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway now under construction from 
the Missouri River west of Aberdeen, crossing the river at Mobridge due west 
of St. Paul and Minneapolis about four hundred miles, through South Dakota, 
the southwest corner of North Dakota, through Montana for nearly 500 
miles, through Idaho and Washington to Seattle and Tacoma. 

Fuller information than it is possible to give here will be most cheerfully 
given on application, and additional maps and pamphlets sent. 

F. A. Miller, Geo. B. Haynes, 

General Passenger Agent Immigration Agent 

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry., Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry., 

Chicago 348 Marquette BIdg., Chicago 



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